Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC Digital Manufacturing

The Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC Digital Manufacturing is a simple and elegant system for manufacturers that combines compute, storage and networking in a single chassis that can be placed under an office desk or racked in a data center. Designed specifically for the digital manufacturing domain, the system helps manufacturing and engineering professionals increase productivity by running complex design simulations, including structural analysis and computational fluid dynamics, in a seamless manner.

The Ready Solution for HPC Digital Manufacturing leverages the capabilities of Bright Cluster Manager for HPC, the most powerful, vendor-independent cluster management software solution available. Bright Cluster Manager for HPC enables your system administrators to deploy complete clusters over bare metal and manage them effectively throughout the lifecycle. It provides single-pane-of-glass management for the hardware, the operating system, the HPC software, and users.

NFS storage solution

NFS storage solution

The Dell EMC network file system (NFS) Storage Solution (NSS) provides a tuned NFS storage option that can be used as primary storage for user home directories and application data. NSS is optional, a cluster can be configured without NSS.

NFS storage solution

The Dell EMC network file system (NFS) Storage Solution (NSS) provides a tuned NFS storage option that can be used as primary storage for user home directories and application data. NSS is optional, a cluster can be configured without NSS.

Support up to 64 servers when configured with a Fibre Channel switch, available with 4GB cache controllers

Controller features

Each controller provides four 12Gbps SAS ports; a total of eight for dual controller modelsEach controller contains 4GB or 8GB of battery-backed cacheDual controllers operate in an active-active environment mirroring each other’s cacheCache protection is provided via flash memory for permanent data protectionDDP*** eliminates the need for complex RAID management while optimizing data protection, and can be used with existing RAID configurationsDual controllers are required for the MD3460 dense array4GB and 8GB only available as dual controller option

Cache

Dual 4GB or 8GB cacheUp to 16GB cache (8GB per controller)

Server support

Dell PowerEdge™ servers

RAID

Support for RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 5, 6Up to 180** physical disks per group in RAID 0, 10Up to 30 physical disks per group in RAID 5, 6Up to 512 virtual disksDDP***